Lights, Shadows and Mushrooms

Lights, Shadows and Mushrooms, a set on Flickr.

Location: Wiss, Tirol, Austria
Date: 24th, July, 2012
Camera/Lens: Canon EOS 550D/Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM
Description: These six images are a part of a set I did focusing on different types of Mushrooms in the alps. Since mushrooms often grow in damp and darker areas in the forest, there is also often lights and shadows playing in the background of their habitat, and this was an artistic theme I used in the collection. The mushrooms from left to right and top to bottom are: the Fly Agaric, the Meadow Waxcap, the Parasol, the Chanterelle, the Clouded Agaric and the Porcino mushroom. These mushrooms reflect their well-maintained environment because almost all fungal organisms require very specific growing conditions in order to thrive, so if their natural habitat is altered and invaded then they will not spore. If we do not take care of our surroundings, then beautiful organisms like these Fungi could disappear, and this should be motivation for people to be more aware of their environments.